For 'tis the sport to have the engineer Hoist with his own petar.

Actor                          

Selected Works:

Theatre:

The Squab Farm - March 13 - April 1918 - Broadway
39 East - March 31, 1919 - closing date unknown - appeared in six performances as a replacement for Constance Binney until Actors' Equity Association strike shut the play down - Broadway
Footloose - May 20 - June 1920 - Broadway
Nice People - March 2 - June 1921 - Broadway
Everyday - November 16, 1921 - January 1922 - Broadway
Sleeping Partners - June 11, 1922 - Baltimore
Good Gracious, Annabelle - June 20, 1922 - Baltimore
Danger - December 22, 1921 - February 1922 - stepped in as two-week replacement for an ill Kathlene MacDonnel - Broadway
Her Temporary Husband - August 31 - November 1922 - replaced during tryouts in May 1922 before the show premiered on Broadway - Stamford, Connecticut
The Exciters - September 22 - October 1922 - Broadway
The Dancers - February 15, 1923 - closing date unknown - London
Conchita - March 19, 1924 - closing date unknown - London
This Marriage - May 15, 1924 - closing date unknown - London
The Creaking Chair - July 22, 1924 - closing date unknown - London
Fallen Angels - April 21, 1925 - closing date unknown - London
The Green Hat - September 2, 1925 - closing date unknown - London
Scotch Mist - January 26, 1926 - closing date unknown - London
They Knew What They Wanted - May 18, 1926 - closing date unknown - London
The Gold Diggers - December 14, 1926 - closing date unknown - London
The Garden of Eden - May 30, 1927 - closing date unknown - London
Blackmail - February 28, 1928 - closing date unknown - London
Mud and Treacle - May 9, 1928 - closing date unknown - London
Her Cardboard Lover - August 21, 1928 - closing date unknown - London and Scotland
He's Mine - October 29, 1929 - closing date unknown - London
The Lady of the Camellias - March 5, 1930 - closing date unknown - London
Let Us Be Gay - August 18, 1930 - closing date unknown - London
Forsaking All Others - March 1 - June 1933 - Broadway
Dark Victory - November 7 - December 1934 - Broadway
Rain - Revival - February 12 - March 1935 - Broadway
Something Gay - April 29 - July 1935 - Broadway
Reflected Glory - September 21, 1936 - January 1937 - Broadway
Antony and Cleopatra - November 10 - November 14, 1937 - Broadway
The Circle - April 18 - June 1938 - Broadway
I Am Different - August 18, 1938 - closing date unknown - opened in San Diego, California, closed during tryouts
The Little Foxes - February 15, 1939 - February 3, 1940 - Broadway
The Second Mrs Tanqueray - July 1, 1940 - Maplewood, New Jersey
Her Cardboard Lover - June 30, 1941 - Westport, Connecticut
Clash by Night - December 27, 1941 - February 7, 1942 - Broadway
The Skin of Our Teeth - November 18, 1942 - September 25, 1943 - replaced after 229 performances by Miriam Hopkins - Broadway
Private Lives - June 19, 1944 - Stamford, Connecticut
Foolish Notion - March 13 - June 9, 1945 - Broadway
The Eagle Has Two Heads - March 19 - April 12, 1947 - Broadway
Private Lives - Revival - October 4, 1948 - May 7, 1949 - Broadway
Dear Charles - September 15, 1954 - January 29, 1955 - Broadway
A Streetcar Named Desire - Revival - February 15, 1956 - closing date unknown - New York City Center
Ziegfeld Follies - April 16, 1956 - closing date unknown - opened in Boston, closed during tryouts, retitled Welcome Darlings for a one-night-only show in Westport, Connecticut
Eugenia - January 30 - February 9, 1957 - Broadway
House on the Rocks - June 1958 - tour
Crazy October - October 8, 1958 - closing date unknown - opened in New Haven, Connecticut, closed in San Francisco during tryouts
Craig's Wife - June 30, 1960 - Nyack, New York
Midgie Purvis - February 1 - February 18, 1961 - Broadway
Here Today - June 1962 - tour
The Milk Train Doesn't Stop Here Anymore - January 1 - January 4, 1964 - Broadway
Glad Tidings - June 1964 - tour                          

Mother Adelaide Eugene Sledge
Father William Brockman Bankhead.
Her father, a Democrat, was the Speaker of the United States House of Representatives from 1936-1940.